"Drugs, booze, obscenity, violence and black humor fuel Lisa McInerney's audacious first novel. . . .
The Glorious Heresies is impressive for its moral complexity, and for the energy and virtuosity of its language: a strange, pleasing music that lingers in your mind." --
The New York Times "A bleak, powerful novel. . . . Darkly comic. . . . McInerney writes an energetic, profane prose laced with the vibrant idiom of Cork street life." --
The Washington Post "A wonderfully offbeat voice. . . . McInerney's characters aren't what anyone would call saints, but they're so richly drawn you have to respect the way they think and sympathize with their moral conflicts."
--The New York Times Book Review "Lisa McInerney's first novel takes off like a house on fire and doesn't stop until it has singed the reader's heart. Love, crime, and cockeyed redemption meet on a hardscrabble housing estate in County Cork, Ireland, in a rare blend of heartbreak and humour. . . . Ms McInerney is a writer to watch."
--The Economist "McInerney's debut won the 2016 Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction, and you can see why from the first page. Her lively, unexpected prose brings these characters--and the crucible of their surroundings--to life."
--Elle "The novel's searing take on contemporary Cork is elegantly leavened by empathy and humor. . . . McInerney's characters are vibrantly-drawn, richly-rendered, and wonderfully full of surprises." --
The Boston Globe "Wonderful. . . . What could be a grim tale is lifted by McInerney's eye for black comedy. . . . I would highly recommend it for the sheer musicality of the language." --
The Paris Review Daily "A smart and sharp tale of Ireland's fringe inhabitants,
The Glorious Heresies only cements its author's esteemed reputation as one of her nation's most brilliant novelists." --
Refinery29 "
The Glorious Heresies is a blisteringly good debut which manifests the true coming of a brilliant new energy in Irish fiction. It's a love story which captures perfectly the feeling of what it is to be young and bowled over by the beauty of another; it's the story of a city, savage and hilarious and coursing deeper and deeper, with every page into that city's dark veins. It's so much more. It's talent, undeniable and aglow." --
Belinda McKeon "
The Glorious Heresies heralds the arrival of a glorious, foul-mouthed, fizzing new talent." --
The Sunday Times "A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel about a nation falling apart." --
The Telegraph "This book is a riot . . . McInerney's sentences are like snowballs rolling down a hill, accumulating jokes and fecks and similes spun from pitch-black humor." -
BOMB "Here's a writer who's totally and unmistakably the real deal and whose every page pulses with vim and vitality and mad twisty insights and terrific description and with real tenderness, too." --
Kevin Barry "A gripping and often riotously funny
tale . . . McInerney gives us a memorable cast that are tough as nails, savagely articulate, and helplessly human." --
Colin Barrett "A real stunner; a wild ride of a read" --
Donal Ryan "A punchy, edgy, sexy, fizzing feast of a debut novel from an immensely skilled storyteller with a glorious passion for words. I loved it" --
Joseph O'Connor "A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel about a nation falling apart" --
The Telegraph "Fiendishly hilarious."
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The Times "McInerney has talent to burn" --
The Guardian "A superb debut from a confident and comic writer." --
Mail on Sunday "A rich, touching, hilarious novel."--
Financial Times "A big, brassy sexy beast of a book." --
The Irish Times "This is a daring, exuberant and generous novel. And a work to which you will want--eagerly--to return." --
The Observer "Impressive and imaginative . . . a superb debut from a confident and comic writer with no fear of taking on serious material; McInerney is a new talent to watch out for." --
Irish Mail on Sunday